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Over the weekend, I went on a movie marathon watching You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Fantastic Mr.Fox, Rango, and Rum Diary. It was Rum Diary to which I kept going back again and again in my mind as if it didn’t reveal all its secrets.

Departures or its Japanese title Okuribito (2008) a soulful and stunning film. The story of a young man, an artist, a cellist, who accidentally stumbles into a profession that is socially unacceptable to many makes for a substantive story…

Doubt (2008) is an intensely packed little drama between four deeply-flawed characters. It betrays its theatrical origins in its fondness for words, which usually happens in intimate spaces, and its proclivity for the unsaid…

The Winner of the 2007 Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film, the Lives of Others stands out as a film in many significant ways. At heart, it’s a deeply human story of one man who was transformed by the power of art…

A young British woman Sue comes to India following her dream of making a documentary about the freedom fighters. She is inspired by her grandfather’s diary-an old leathered book-which she embraces from time to time…

And so it was that one fine Sunday, I was destined to watch one of the greatest films of all time 58 years after it was made in sunny dusty tropical Chennai so far away from anything that the director would have imagined…